Contact your Mississippi Senator: Let Christians Come in from the Cold

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For decades conservatives have traced nearly every cultural problem – crime, the breakdown of the family, the rise of sexual deviancy – to the elimination of prayer in public schools. Now, the people of Mississippi have a chance to reverse this decline. But legislation to do so is stalled in the Mississippi Senate.

We have to get this legislation passed by Tuesday, March 3. Please call and email your MS Senator and ask them to pass the Open to Religion Act (HB 1310).

The Open to Religion Act takes the HUGE WIN we got at the U.S. Supreme Court in the Coach Kennedy case and updates our school policies so kids can pray and read the Bible.

Under current Mississippi law, kids who want to pray and read the Bible are banished outside. They can “meet at the flagpole.” Forget whether it’s raining or if there is an ice storm – no prayer in school! No other group – the chess club, the furry club, the LGBTQ club – is ever banished outside. Not even the Muslims – not that we have many in Mississippi. Just Christians. Just kids who want to meet together to read the Bible.

But if you don’t act today, Christians will remain outside in the cold.

Please call and email your Mississippi Senator today.

The Coach Kennedy case reversed decades of discriminatory nonsense in public schools. Ever since the 1960s, we have been told, “you can’t pray in school.” This is because of two bad cases: Engel (1962) and Schempp (1963). Engel involved a state-written prayer. The Open to Religion Act avoids that. Schempp involved reading the Bible over the school public address system. The Open to Religion Act avoids that problem too.

The Open to Religion Act is simple. It puts prayer and reading of religious books on the same level as the chess club and any other club.

The law would require parental consent and requires such gatherings to occur outside the ear shot of any student who doesn’t want to participate.

We are running out of time. And there are no excuses. Please call and email your MS Senator and ask them to pass the Open to Religion Act. Then call Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann at 601-359-3200 AND email him at [email protected]. This bill has already passed the House and must pass out of Mike Thompson’s AET committee by Tuesday.